The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler

Intro to U.S. Involvement in WWI - And What Kids Say About Tom Richey's Videos Tom Richey recently released a new video for students in U.S. history courses. The United States in World War I is a video in which Tom provides students with an overview of why the United States got involved in the war, why U.S. involvement was significant, and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. It's hard to provide depth in a ten minute, but Tom does a great job of providing students with an overview of U.S. involvement in WWI. How the Chicken Conquered the World The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on his way to confront the invading Persian forces, stopped to watch two cocks fighting and summoned his troops, saying: “Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other.” The tale does not describe what happened to the loser, nor explain why the soldiers found this display of instinctive aggression inspirational rather than pointless and depressing. But history records that the Greeks, thus heartened, went on to repel the invaders, preserving the civilization that today honors those same creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one’s choice of sauce. How did the chicken achieve such cultural and culinary dominance?

Hundred Years' War 1337-1453 The Hundred Years' War 1337-1453 The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and France over a period of more than a hundred years, to be exact from 1337 - 1453. This act became the straw that broke the camel's back and turned an ongoing quarrel between England and France into an outright war between the two. What Ended the War?

October 3rd, 2016 Eight days after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped to his knee as the national anthem was played before a Sept. 1 NFL preseason game in San Diego, Preston Brown gathered the Woodrow Wilson High School football team on their practice field nearly 3,000 miles away in Camden, N.J. Like his young, mostly African-American players, Brown grew up in the ailing city outside Philadelphia, and its bleak statistics–52% of kids below the poverty line, a college-graduation rate under 9%–left a lasting mark. “Come and experience some of the things these kids have to go through,” says Brown.

Family tree of the Greek gods Greek cosmological entities Essential Olympians and Titans The essential Olympians' names are given in bold font. See also List of Greek mythological figures The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever The disastrous mortal disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in the years 1346-53. The frightening name, however, only came several centuries after its visitation (and was probably a mistranslation of the Latin word ‘atra’ meaning both ‘terrible’ and ‘black)’. Chronicles and letters from the time describe the terror wrought by the illness. In Florence, the great Renaissance poet Petrarch was sure that they would not be believed: ‘O happy posterity, who will not experience such abysmal woe and will look upon our testimony as a fable.’

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less [rec.humor.funny] | Browse the Best of RHF: "General Jokes 96-present" | (chuckle) Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. LeBron James Announces 'Rise Up' Civil Rights Documentary He Produced Phil Long/Associated Press Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James announced Saturday that he served as the executive producer on a documentary on the civil rights struggle titled Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America. LeBron James @KingJamesSo proud to announce this project and to partner with @stanleynelson1!! This story and their struggle feels more important everyday.

A Year on the Medieval Farm What did medieval peasants do on a farm? Some documents from the period offer insights into the agricultural activities throughout the year. One of these works was the Liber ruralium commodorum, written by Pietro de’ Crescenzi around 1304-09. This treatise about agriculture offered advice on all kinds of things to be done on the medieval farm, ranging from beekeeping to winemaking, and includes a chapter detailing a monthly calendar of tasks. This work became very popular in the later Middle Ages, with numerous manuscripts and print versions coming out. These illustrations, from a manuscript made around 1475, show the ‘Labours of the Months’ that medieval peasants did around the farm during a typical year. Story of Gaelic speaking soldiers who escaped Nazis will be film The true story of three Scottish soldiers who escaped the Nazis by pretending to be Russian by speaking Gaelic is to be turned to a film. Heroic Private William Kemp, Corporal Sandy MacDonald and Lance Corporal James “Ginger” Wilson fled Hitler’s clutches in June 1940. They managed to escape weeks after their Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment had surrendered to enemy forces.